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Taggart letting Sutcliffe sleep on his heated rock today.

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Sad Sadford.

Going live to the Saravanamuttoo campaign…

Thanks Lawson. Thanks Sutcliffe. Cut-eye for Saravanamuttoo.

In 2030, Chas Chuck Charlesford rises.

I’m filing a CRTC complaint about Leiper’s un-bleeped bleepable.

On the positive side: looks like Hubley has been bested by Erin Coffin. Chianello in Kitchissippi taking Jeff’s seat; Devine ahead in Knoxdale-Merivale despite an ugly race. Luloff hitting Wendy’s tonight!

As more votes come in, Neil is definitely a spoiler candidate.

I can’t believe this city re-elected the AI menu Mayor.

No. Long answer: NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo…

Watching CBC Ottawa’s election coverage. C’mon!!!

In some auto markets, there's the concept of a 'Courtesy Horn' which gives a little thank you toot rather than a "fuck you and your ancestors" blast.

There are currently 6 track which are played at random: The Specials - A Message To You Rudy Madness - One Step Beyond The Specials - Ghost Town Rancid - Time Bomb Bosstones - The Impression That I Get Goldfinger - Superman I have a 1GB SD card so tell me your ska favourites and I'll load 'em up!

Why? Why not - my line is open for any auto manufacturers who wish to license this system for future products. Porsche - are you listening [to ska]?

In some auto markets, there's the concept of a 'Courtesy Horn' which gives a little thank you toot rather than a "fuck you and your ancestors" blast.

Not pictured: simple circuit with an opto coupler to isolate the Pico from the 12V system/switch in the car and skipped a bunch of swearing and cursing trying to figure out what format/bitrate to use to encode the MP3s in ffmpeg (64kbps mono) + other vagaries of software and hardware development.

There's a system diagnostic to set the output volume (press & hold button for 5 seconds and a test tone plays, tap button to increase the volume level in 5% increments, at 100% it rolls around to 5% again.) There's also a 'long press' feature but I haven't figured out what to do with that yet.

In some auto markets, there's the concept of a 'Courtesy Horn' which gives a little thank you toot rather than a "fuck you and your ancestors" blast.

But to me, I see THE SKA BUTTON! So I spent a bit of the weekend building the brains behind this: 1. Pi Pico (this one has a CAN bus logger for other Volkswagen reasons, but can serve double duty) 2. SD card reader (again, already in place for the logging) 3. Baby DAC and amp

4. Small speaker (wiring into car audio system is a headache - mainly because of EMI and input switching seemed to complicated for this type of bullshitery) Amazingly, I wired/soldered all this up and it worked the first time which is impressive for me. Shown here in test mode sans button.

In some auto markets, there's the concept of a 'Courtesy Horn' which gives a little thank you toot rather than a "fuck you and your ancestors" blast.

Thanks to global crapmongers you can buy these for cheap (I think I paid $6). I picked one up along with a wireless charger and some other bits to replace the poverty buttons with some more 'useful' features.

Reminder to all my Ottawa (and Ontario) people: get out there and vote! Polls are open until 8pm and voting is fast and simple - get all the details from Elections Ottawa: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...

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Municipal Election Day. I hope we crack 30% participation so more than 15% of the population actually decides who runs this joint. Go Leiper!

But as Ottawa’s transit system teeters on a precipice, our infrastructure is crumbling, road deaths at a 10 year high, and homelessness and affordability top list of concerns all Sutcliffe can offer is the same, tired, low-tax screed that got us here after spending his term working for developers.

With a spoiler candidate like Saravanamuttoo on the ballot there’s a good chance we get “more of the same”, and I’m not sure there will be much left with four more years of Sutcliffe.

Municipal Election Day. I hope we crack 30% participation so more than 15% of the population actually decides who runs this joint. Go Leiper!